Hi Mike,
It's a hoax. You can check it out at
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98307 One clue that this is a
hoax is that IBM doesn't track viruses and doesn't make announcements
concerning them. Sounds pretty official, though, doesn't it. Next time you
get a virus announcement you can go to the Mcafee website and verify it for
yourself. It's best not to forward these things, it's just clogs up bandwidth.
Henry Deaton
SF, CA
At 01:01 PM 10/11/00, you wrote:
>Has anyone heard about this?
> Mike
>
>FYI....
>
>PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
>If you receive an email titled, It Takes Guts to Say Jesus, DO
>NOT OPEN IT.
>
>It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information
>was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this
>is a very dangerous virus, much worse than Melissa, and that
>there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very sick
>individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from
>Norton Utilities causing it to
>completely erase all documents on the hard drive.
>
>It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and
>Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM
>compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and
>not many people know about it.
>
>Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and
>please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this
>threat may be stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and
>tell anyone that may
>have access to your computer.
>
>
>Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet.
>Jerry Stragazzi
>IBM Global Services
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